Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 19th July, 2024.

19th July, 2024.

Right … it’s Friday … and I have a problem … 

I was due to start my new medication, today.

The 2.5mg doses of Mounjaro: in what the manufacturer, Eli Lilly, call a Kwikpen.

It’s like the Ozempic pens I’m used to.

You have a pen filled with so many doses of the drug, you screw on a disposable needle, you inject yourself with the meds … then unscrew the needle, and shove it in a sharps bin.

The Ozempic?

You get the disposable needles with the pens.

The Trulicity I’ve used?

The needles are built into the pens.

The Mounjaro, by contrast?

I’ve opened my first box of the stuff, this morning.

To find it doesn’t come with the needed needles.

I’ve phoned my local pharmacists, obviously.

Apparently?

You need to get the needles prescribed separately … !

I’m going into my surgery, today: to arrange for an emergency prescription.

But, as you can imagine … ?

I’m not bloody happy.

And wish someone had mentioned this!

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I’m not happy.

Obviously.

Neither’s a lot of the planet.

Seemingly, there’s a lot of computer outages going on, today: that many say is being caused by issues with Microsoft products and services.

I’m … 

I’m a long term Mac user: and going to get mildly smug about that.

But also … ?

Mildly sympathetic.

It’s possibly not the time to paraphrase Murphy’s Law:

“If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong, at the worst possible time.”

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 19th July, 2022

19th July, 2022.

I mentioned — in yesterday’s Teaser — that we were expecting seriously high temperatures.

With the Met Office predicting some 40°C.

It wasn’t quite that bad.

The hottest it got?

Was 38.1°C: in Surrey, and other parts of England.

I know it got to 36° in Brentwood: and that my flat hit 30°!

It wasn’t pleasant.

It’s possibly going to get worse.

The Today programme’s talking about 40° to 42° maximums.

With the temperature in my part of town predicted to be 38°.

I think today is going to be another day like yesterday.

It’ll be a two shower day.

(I can still remember one family holiday to Spain: back when the UK was a LOT cooler, and Spain, comparatively tropical.   Stepping off the plane was like walking into a war of heat.   Stepping out of my front door, yesterday?   Reminded me of that trip.)

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You’ve possibly realised I’m on benefits: as a result of an extended job search.

And — like many in the same shoes? — waiting for the first of the government’s Cost of Living payments.

That first payment, of £326, turned up yesterday.

Even though I’ve spent a good chunk of it?   A big wedge on gas, electricity and my internet connection? I’m grateful it turned up.

I still have enough to possibly get a haircut.

So long as the barber’s shady … 

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JUST as a final thought … ?

This, and this?

Are a couple of YouTube shorts my nephew, Jude, has done.

And this is his latest Rocket League video.

Feel free to hit Like and Share!

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